Biophysical Society 62nd Annual Meeting | Program Guide

Symposium: Translational Biophysics

North, Lower Lobby, Room 24

Co-Chairs Melanie Cocco, University of California, Irvine Shankar Subramaniam, University of California, San Diego AGENTS TO BLOCK THE NEURITE OUTGROWTH INHIBITOR (NOGO, RTN4) INSPIRED BY THE STRUCTURE. Melanie J. Cocco BIOPHYSICS-ENABLED TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE. Donald Ingber ROLE OF MATRIX PROTEINS IN BALANCING TISSUE STIFFNESS AND INFLAMMATION IN FIBROSIS. Shyni Varghese MECHANISMS DEFINING THE NEURONAL STATE SPACE. Shankar Subramaniam Co-Chairs Simon Alberti, Max Planck Institute, Germany Tanja Mittag, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital ORGANIZING LIVING MATTER: THE ROLE OF PHASE TRANSITIONS IN CELL BIOLOGY AND DISEASE. Simon Alberti DYSREGULATION OF PHASE SEPARATION IN CANCER. Tanja Mittag LIGHTING UP INTRACELLULAR PHASE SPACE. Clifford P. Brangwynne PHYSICAL MECHANISMS OF CELL ORGANIZATION ON MICRON LENGTH SCALES. Michael K. Rosen Symposium: Protein and RNA Phase Separation

S U N D A Y

10:45 am-12:45 pm

North, Lower Lobby, Room 25

10:45 am-12:45 pm

10:45 am-12:45 pm Platform: Ligand-gated Channels

South, Level Two, Room 207/208

10:45 am-12:45 pm Platform: Protein Structure and Conformation I

South, Level Two, Room 215/216

10:45 am-12:45 pm Platform: Bacterial Electrophysiology: From Single Cells to Biofilms

Esplanade, Room 153

10:45 am-12:45 pm Platform: DNA Structure and Dynamics

Esplanade, Room 154

10:45 am-12:45 pm Platform: Protein-Small Molecule Interactions

Esplanade, Room 155

10:45 am-12:45 pm Platform: Protein-Lipid Interactions I

Esplanade, Room 156

11:30 am-1:00 pm Undergraduate Student Pizza “Breakfast”

North, Lower Lobby, Room 20/21

Exhibit Hall, Room 5

11:30 am-1:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC

ZEISS Live Cell Imaging Tools Allow New Levels of Resolution, Sensitivity, and Throughput

11:30 am-5:00 pm Colleges in the Community Day

North, Lower Lobby, Room 20/21

Career Development Center Workshop:

South, Lower Level, Room 2

12:00 pm-1:00 pm

Demystifying the Academic Job Search I: Understanding the Search Process from the Perspective of Search Committees and Decoding Job Announcements

12:15 pm-2:15 pm Public Affairs Committee Meeting

South, Level Three, Room 306

12:30 pm-1:30 pm International Travel Awardee Luncheon

South, Level Three, Room 307/308

Exhibit Hall, Room 6

12:30 pm-2:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Alvéole

Maskless Quantitative Multi-Protein Photopatterning to Orchestrate Cellular Microenvironment

1:00 pm-2:30 pm The World Outside the Lab: Many Ways to Use Your PhD Skills

Esplanade, Room 151

1:00 pm-3:00 pm Graduate & Postdoc Institution Fair

Exhibit Hall ABC

Exhibit Hall, Room 5

1:30 pm-3:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: HORIBA Scientific

New Fluorescence and Absorbance Spectrometer Concept

1:45 pm-3:00 pm Snack Break

Exhibit Hall ABC

1:45 pm-3:45 pm Poster Presentations and Late Posters

Exhibit Hall ABC

2:00 pm-3:30 pm Teaching Science Like We Do Science

North, Lower Lobby, Room 20/21

2:30 pm-3:30 pm Career Development Center Workshop: Evaluating a Job Offer

South, Lower Level, Room 2

Exhibit Hall, Room 6

2:30 pm-4:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Allen Institute for Cell Science

The Allen Institute for Cell Science – Resources to Empower Your Research

3:30 pm-5:00 pm Early Careers Committee Meeting

South, Level Three, Room 306

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